Numerous examples of closed-cage nanostructures, such as nested fullerene-like nanoparticles and nanotubes, formed by the folding of materials with layered structure are known. These compounds include WS₂, NiCl₂, CdCl₂, Cs₂O, and recently V₂O₅. Layered materials, whose chemical bonds are highly ionic in character, possess relatively stiff layers, which cannot be evenly folded. Thus, stress-reli...

The smallest fullerene C20 with positive electron affinity is considered to be a new organic nano-electronic material. The binding structures and electronic states of lithium ions and atoms (Li+ and Li) trapped on the surface of C20 have been investigated by means of density functional theory (DFT) calculation to elucidate the nature of their interaction. It was found that a Li+ can bind to onl...

Metal clusters supported on carbonaceous substrates are of interest in catalysis, hydrogen storage, and other fields. In this paper, the structures infrared spectra C60Rhn+ (n = 1–6) fullerene-metal complexes studied by a combination mass-selective spectroscopy theoretical calculations. It is found that clustering Rh surface fullerene preferred over wetting. For Rh4+ Rh6+, adsorbed different fr...

the spectroscopic properties of the 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-piperidine-1-oxyl (tempo) radicalderivatives of the fullerene (c60) were theoretically investigated. the ground state optimizedstructures of the radical adducts of the fullerene were calculated by using dft (b3lyp) with 6-31g(d) level. it was concluded that a 6-6 ring junction of c60 moiety generally covalently links to thepiperidine ring ...

The reaction of [Cp(Bn) Fe(η(5) -P5 )] (1) (Cp(Bn) =η(5) -C5 (CH2 Ph)5 ) with CuI selectively yields a novel spherical supramolecule (CH2 Cl2 )3.4 @[(Cp(Bn) FeP5 )12 {CuI}54 (MeCN)1.46 ] (2) showing a linkage of the scaffold atoms which is beyond the Fullerene topology. Its extended CuI framework reveals an outer diameter of 3.7 nm-a size that has not been reached before using five-fold symmetr...

focus of fundamental and applied materials research since the first preparation of macroscopic C60 quantities by Krätschmer et al. in 1990 [1]. The ability to encage atoms and small molecules opened the door to new structures which are highly reactive under standard conditions. Up to now low production yields and a time consuming multi stage separation hampered the search for applications of en...

In this work, the vibrations of viscoelastic functionally graded Euler–Bernoulli nanostructure beams are investigated using the fractional-order calculus. It is assumed that the functionally graded nanobeam (FGN) is due to a periodic heat flux. FGN can be considered as nonhomogenous composite structures; with continuous structural changes along the thick- ness of the nanobeam usually, it change...

in this paper, we have studied the electrical properties of the randomly distributed metallic (co and fe) nano/ micro wires on silicon substrate. deposition was carried out potentiostatically into the pores of the track-etch polycarbonate membrane spin coated onto the si substrate. spin coated films were irradiated with 150mev ni (+11) ions at a fluence of 8e7 ions/cm2, followed by uv irradiati...